Web Design for Libraries

Charles P. Rubenstein

• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
• Year: 2014
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781610693448
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Information Technology
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

Having a clear, attractive, and easy-to-navigate website that allows users to quickly find what they want is essential for any organization—including a library. This workbook makes website creation easy—no HTML required. This book teaches all of the essentials for designing and creating a simple, professional-looking website for any library. By using cut-and-paste templates from familiar software programs, readers can create complex websites in short order—without learning confusing HTML coding. Three final chapters cover using style sheets, address the potential benefits of HTML5, and overview content management system based websites. By using this guidebook as a reference, even those without previous knowledge about web design will possess enough basic information to create a great web page—and, with a little practice, prepare a full library website.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Preface
• 1 Quick Start in Web Design
• 2 Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
• 3 The HTML Document
• 4 Displaying Text in Your HTML Document
• 5 Images and Linking to Other Web Pages
• 6 Cascading Style Sheets and Floating Images
• 7 Lists, Lists, and More Lists
• 8 Tables and Their Creative Uses
• 9 Forms for Patron Interactivity
• 10 Web Page Navigation, Image Mapping, and Marquees
• 11 More Fun with CSS
• 12 XML
• 13 Content Management Systems, Mobile Applications, and Things That Go Bump in the Night
• Appendix A HTML Element Syntax
• Appendix B HTML Entity Relationship Characters
• Appendix C Cascading Style Sheets: CSS Properties and Syntax
• Index